RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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By the end of the Reconstruction era, most African-Americans in the United States
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had received a free college education
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owned land their ancestors worked as slaves
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began to migrate South
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were left out of voting with poll taxes and literacy tests
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In the United States, between the 1850s and 1960s, literacy tests were administered to prospective voters, and this had the effect of disenfranchising African Americans and others with diminished access to education.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Civil War, many states enacted literacy tests as a voting requirement. The purpose was to exclude persons with minimal literacy, in particular, poor African Americans in the South, from voting.
Detailed explanation-3: -Blacks had gained more rights. The Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery in the country. The Fourteenth Amendment said that blacks in the country were now citizens. Blacks also had gained the right to vote.
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